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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Window sizing/layout
From:       Jay Cornwall <jay () evilrealms ! net>
Date:       2002-09-25 18:24:27
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Hi

I'm having a few problems getting the window layout of my KDE application 
(Kiowa) right, and hoped some of you might be able to shed some light on 
this.

I have a KDialog in my program which displays fine normally. An example 
screenshot is:
  http://www.evilrealms.net/misc/statistics-1.png

The problem arose when I tried it with a translation, using longer strings for 
the tabs at the top. Ideally the window would expand to allow for the longer 
strings, but instead it does this:
  http://www.evilrealms.net/misc/statistics-3.png

This is quite inconvenient for the user, and having a wider window is much 
more preferable (it's a fairly small dialog, anyway). But how can I control 
this from the application, and stop KDE from adding scroll arrows?

If this was a KDE "feature" (saving screen space is good, I suppose), I guess 
it wouldn't be so bad. But try widening the listview columns, and see what 
happens:
  http://www.evilrealms.net/misc/statistics-2.png

No scrollbar, and the window becomes wider. Why is it different in this case?

KDE some seem to be a little inconsistent in this respect. With an application 
like KSysV it's important that the window is full-width, or you can't drag 
services to the higher runlevels - but instead KDE adds scrollbars, making it 
useless without resizing the window.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Jay

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http://www.evilrealms.net/ - Systems Administrator
http://www.ic.ac.uk/ - Imperial College, student and developer

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